{"id":1505,"date":"2005-02-17T13:57:49","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/gop_pollsters_help_protect_ame\/"},"modified":"2005-02-17T13:57:49","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T18:57:49","slug":"gop_pollsters_help_protect_ame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/gop_pollsters_help_protect_ame\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Pollsters Help Protect America From Terror!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one could have ever imagined <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=507309\">this<\/a> was going on at DHS:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge met privately with Republican pollsters twice in a 10-day span last spring as he embarked on more than a dozen trips to presidential battleground states.<br \/>\nRidge&#8217;s get-togethers with Republican strategists Frank Luntz and Bill McInturff during a period the secretary was saying his agency was playing no role in Bush&#8217;s re-election campaign were revealed in daily appointment calendars obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act.<br \/>\n&#8220;We don&#8217;t do politics in the Department of Homeland Security,&#8221; Ridge told reporters during the election season.<br \/>\nHis aides resisted releasing the calendars for over a year, finally providing them to the AP three days after Ridge left office this month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shocking, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/gop_pollsters_help_protect_ame\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to GOP Pollsters Help Protect America From Terror!\"><p>No one could have ever imagined this was going on at DHS: Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge met privately with Republican pollsters twice in a 10-day span last spring as he embarked on more than a dozen trips to presidential battleground states. Ridge&#8217;s get-togethers with Republican strategists Frank Luntz and Bill McInturff during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}